Morphological Retrospective Study of Peritoneal Biopsies from Patients with Encapsulating Peritoneal Sclerosis: Underestimated Role of Adipocytes as New Fibroblasts Lineage?

Background. Encapsulating peritoneal sclerosis (EPS) is a rare but serious complication of peritoneal dialysis (PD). Besides the endothelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT), recently peritoneal adipocytes emerged as a potential source of fibrosis. We performed immunohistochemistry to approach EMT an...

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Autores principales: Tooulou, Monika, Demetter, Pieter, Hamade, Anwar, Keyzer, Caroline, Nortier, Joëlle L., Pozdzik, Agnieszka A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4556900/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26366298
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/987415

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